Hello all, I recently became reacquainted with this forum after many years of inactivity and thought I'd share one of my recent builds. I had joined this forum 10 years ago when I was 15 after having purchased a binding jig from the late Ken C. After years of building on my own, learning from books and forums like this, I took a semester off from university to study classical guitar making in Spain. I never went back to college and instead studied under two different classical guitar makers in the deep south of Andalusia. After a few years of bartending, throwing all my money at my shop and occasional building I decided to take the plunge and build classical guitars full time right before the pandemic broke out in February 2020. This guitar was built during my annual 3 month working holiday to one of my mentor's workshops in Granada Provence Spain. I'm currently French polishing the instrument in my shop here in New York.
The client who commissioned this guitar asked for padauk and cedar, a combination I had not yet tried but knew could be great thanks to instruments I've played built by friends and colleagues. The client is an avid video game player so I decided to make this abstract herringbone central theme in the rosette where the points chase each other circularly to emulate the loading symbol of a video game.
For the bracing I went with my personal interpretation of the Bouchet/Granada 5 fan/bridge bar system
The head shape of this one differs from the other guitars I've made taking influence from a church I saw in Malaga while visiting a friend one weekend
Into the solera
Peones and peone de barre installed
Back braced
And assembled
